Trading schemes encourage cleaner water
Year: 2003
What Would Happen If We Lifted Rent Controls?
Repealing rent controls brings a substantial increase in housing investments according to Manhattan Institute study.
Planning Is a Tool, Not a Goal
Urban planning should be responsive, not prescriptive. It should respond to the needs and desires of people, not seek to impose standards of behavior on them.
Mad Cow’s Circle within Circles
The crisis in Canada’s beef industry will require finesse, diplomacy and a fundamental re-thinking of our relationship with the United States.
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Winnipeg Wave Pool to Cope with Brutal Winters
To cope with brutal winters Winnipeg needs more indoor recreation options. Redeveloping the Winnipeg Arena, scheduled for demolition, into a wave pool water park complex is an idea worth more study.
Rent Control Subsidizes Rich Manhattanites
If rental prices were completely deregulated, the median monthly rent of subsidized housing would increase by only $8 due to the expansion of the unregulated market.
If Noah’s Ark was Canadian built?
Too many regulations destroy the world..
Social Democrats Welcome Private Companies into Swedish Healthcare
The Social Democratic Minister of Health, Lars Engqvist, is now explicitly welcoming more private – even for-profit – players into Swedish healthcare.
Reforming Milk the Australian Way
Australia’s dairy reforms introduced a temporary consumer tax on milk, the revenues from which, were used to partially buy out quota from affected dairy farmers.
Fiscal Restraint in the States
One fiscal-discipline measure that enjoyed some success in limiting the growth of government during the 1990s is that of the Tax and Expenditure Limitation, or TEL. TELs restrain government growth by limiting the amount that expenditures or revenues can increase in any given fiscal year.
Australia’s Dairy Reforms
An overview of Australia’s recent dairy reforms and the country’s phase out of marketing boards. A temporary consumer levy on milk is being applied to partially buy out quotas, the most difficult aspect of marketing board reform.
Bush Moves Towards Consumption Taxation
The high degree of income mobility in American society is a key reason why many of the poor and middle class oppose high taxes on the rich.
Market Forces in Electricity Attacked
Across the world, very significantly lower electricity prices have resulted from replacing the monopoly supply of electricity with independent competing firms.